Asparagus Artichoke plate Fives-Lille

Sources : Plate reproduced in Maryse Botero, Artichauts et Asperges en barbotine, Paris, Massin, Paris, p.89 awith the same number but with a different color (several colors exist).

The earthenware manufacture of Fives-Lilles was founded in 1864 at Fives, near the Belgium border, by Antoine Gustave de Bruyn who just had first commercial failure at Gand. The company produced cooking pottery, then decorative pottery in china bone and had a large success in the 1870s. Fives-Lille won a silver medal at the Paris Great Exhibition in 1889 and reached its top circa 1900. The WWI,  De Bruyn’s death in 1916 and a fire in 1917 led to the collapse of the company. After several attempts of recovery, Fives-Lille closed in 1962.